Declared ‘dead’ in draft rolls, Trinamool councillor walks into crematorium, demands own last rites

Surya Dey, the Trinamool councillor of Dankuni Municipality’s Ward 18, said that while checking the lists linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, he claimed his name figured among the “dead”, though he had filled and submitted his enumeration form to the booth-level officer